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Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
Standardized breeds should generally retain the capitalization used in the breed standards. [m] Examples: German Shepherd, Russian White goat, Berlin Short-faced Tumbler. As with plant cultivars, this applies whether or not the included noun is a proper name, in contrast to how vernacular names of species are written.
Like common nouns that are derived or associated with proper names (a few are mentioned above), adjectives, verbs, and adverbs derived from proper names are not themselves proper names, but they are normally still capitalized in English (though not in many other languages): Dickensian and Balkan (adjectives), Balkanize (verb), Trumpishly (adverb).
In grammar, a proper noun is a noun that is used to denote a particular person, place, or thing. Such nouns are properly capitalized. The fact that Dicklyon and others have moved hundreds of articles to use sentence case is just wrong in my opinion despite whatever reliable sources use.
It should not be capitalized when the word state is being used in its common-noun sense: John has never been to the state of California. On the other hand, it should be capitalized when the entire phrase is being used as a formal name for the governmental entity: In this litigation, the State of California asserted that it could not be sued ...
President Donald Trump has an unusual writing style that has caught the attention of linguists and writing experts.
The United Nations updated their Editorial Manual to include that "Indigenous should be capitalized when referring to cultures, communities, lands, languages, etc., of Indigenous Peoples, e.g.: Indigenous culture in Ecuador, Indigenous languages are dying out. If referring to flora or fauna, lower case should be used."
At least in an ideal world, I would say such nouns should be capitalized when used as part of a proper name; I would also say that sources are normally irrelevant, since capitalization (and where to draw the line regarding proper names) is a matter of house style and consistency.